PHILADELPHIA (August 12, 2020) – Fox Chase Cancer Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Maureen V. Hill, MD, who will stay on and join the Department of Surgical Oncology as a clinical instructor. Hill will be joining the Fox Chase team upon completion of her Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship here, where she served as administrative chief fellow.
Hill received her medical degree from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. She completed her general surgery residency and became the administrative chief general surgery resident at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Hill also has advanced training in the fundamentals of laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery from the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons.
Hill was a student researcher at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in the Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, and has been a research assistant at Thomas Jefferson University and at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
She is a member of the Society of Surgical Oncology, Association of Women in Surgery, Association of Academic Surgeons, and American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. She was also elected as the American College of Surgeons, RAS Representative for the Board of Governors Patient Education Workgroup.
Hill has been published in numerous peer reviewed journals, made multiple podium presentations, and was a finalist for the best clinical poster at the 2020 Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting. She has authored sentinel papers related to opioid use and surgery and its relation to the opioid epidemic.
Hill will begin work at Fox Chase on September 1, 2020.